Improvement in treating liquors containing gelatine or glue



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()RAZIO LUGO, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

- Letters Patent No. 100,647, d gted ilIa rch 8, 1.870.

" IMPROVEMENT m TREATING; LI UoRs com-Mme GELA'I'INE OR GLUE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, Ouazro Loco, of the'city and county of Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Treatment of Liquors containing Gelatinc; and I do hereby declare that the following is an exact description thereof.

This'inventiou relates to an improved process for the concentration of liquors containing gelatine or glue by means of currents of air being passed through-said liquors, for the purpose hereafter more fully specified.

In order to enable others to apply my invention, 1 will proceed to describe the same.

The bone liquor, or any other solution containing gelatine desired to concentrate, is placed in a tank or vessel where it can be conveniently heated, either by steam or fire. i

Bet'ore the liquor has reached its boiling point,currents of air are made to pass through the liquor, in order to expel the required quantity of water, and reach the desired concentration in the shortest possible time.

By the above processit will befound that diluted gelatine solutions can be concentrated in a comparatively short time, and the reduced solution will easily jellify into a strong andhard jelly.

I have obtained jellies which commence tonielt or run only at a temperature as high as 156 Fahrenheit.

lVhen it is desired to convert the reduced solution into dry glue, said solution or reduced liquor is left to jellify in the usual manner, cut into pieces and dried.

But when it is desired to use the reduced solutions to aunnoniate fertilizers or guanos, said reduced solution may be mixed with the substance desired to ammoniate while in a liquid state, or after the solution has jellified may be granulated or cut into small Witnesses:

1601!. F. BROWN, W. G. Huxnnusox. 

